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Once Quotes by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely…
- We are being at once wisely aware of our own frivolity if we avoid hitting and whacking and prefer 'striking' and 'smiting'; talk and chat…
- But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word…
- Much evil must befall a country before it ever really forgets the Elves, if once they lived there.
- Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from…
- Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the…
- If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain’s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow…
- Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tinúviel.…
- The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once…
- But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was…
- One tiny Hobbit against all the evil the world could muster. A sane being would have given up, but Samwise burned with a magnificent madness,…
- For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart…
More Once Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins